The study conducted by researchers at the University of Lund revealed that the percentage of users who have never shared files has rocketed from 21.6 to 30.2.

Meanwhile the number of users who share files on a daily basis has dropped from 32.8 percent in 2012 to 29 percent in 2014. The researchers interviewed a cross section of people aged 15 to 24 over a four-year period

"There is now a trend where alternative payment solutions such as Spotify and Netflix are changing consumption patterns among young people," Måns Svensson, sociologist of law at the University of Lund, told Sveriges Television (SVT).

He added that although the decrease in the number of people who download daily was relatively small it was a "significant" as it wasn't associated with the a high-profile legal clampdown on file sharing, such as the Pirate Bay arrests of 2009.

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